01-29-2016, 06:46 AM
Corporations
Space based telescopes
Civil disobedience
The list goes on.
Whenever the TMT is brought up, it's detractors go off in all directions, ready to discuss almost anything except the TMT. Let's go back to this comment by Kealoha Pisciotta:
It made me feel kind of sad (for Him) in that the take away from 2015 for him was to capitulate to Corporate greed. So sad ...really Auwe!!!
Really? Capitulate to Corporate greed? I wonder which corporate gas company Kealoha uses when she fills up the tank of her car to drive to anti-TMT protests? Or what about when she goes grocery shopping? How many items in her cart are manufactured by corporations, who's greed she supports daily by purchasing their products for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
And then, she lumps the TMT in with all corporations, as if all corporations are the same, almost like those who believe all people of one religion or race are just the same.
Let's take it a step farther:
In 2010 the Supreme Court sided with Citizens United, a decision allowing unlimited corporate and union spending on political issues. This led Mitt Romney to say "Corporations are people, my friend."
If, as Mr. Romney said corporations are people, when Kealoha Pisciotta states corporations are greedy, isn't she really stereotyping? Claiming, and treating all members of that one class of "people" the same?
The irony in all of this hodgepodge of name calling and tangential thinking is that the target of the protesters ire, is the TMT. The conception of one "person" (corporate or otherwise) with clear focus and great clarity. A 30 meter lens, 1/3 the size of a football field, with better vision than human eyes, connected to computers that can organize the information relayed to them faster than a human brain in a way that sentences penned by the protesters can only hope to manage for a moment or two at best. If the anti-TMT comments on this thread are any indication, even that isn't often the case.
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
Space based telescopes
Civil disobedience
The list goes on.
Whenever the TMT is brought up, it's detractors go off in all directions, ready to discuss almost anything except the TMT. Let's go back to this comment by Kealoha Pisciotta:
It made me feel kind of sad (for Him) in that the take away from 2015 for him was to capitulate to Corporate greed. So sad ...really Auwe!!!
Really? Capitulate to Corporate greed? I wonder which corporate gas company Kealoha uses when she fills up the tank of her car to drive to anti-TMT protests? Or what about when she goes grocery shopping? How many items in her cart are manufactured by corporations, who's greed she supports daily by purchasing their products for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
And then, she lumps the TMT in with all corporations, as if all corporations are the same, almost like those who believe all people of one religion or race are just the same.
Let's take it a step farther:
In 2010 the Supreme Court sided with Citizens United, a decision allowing unlimited corporate and union spending on political issues. This led Mitt Romney to say "Corporations are people, my friend."
If, as Mr. Romney said corporations are people, when Kealoha Pisciotta states corporations are greedy, isn't she really stereotyping? Claiming, and treating all members of that one class of "people" the same?
The irony in all of this hodgepodge of name calling and tangential thinking is that the target of the protesters ire, is the TMT. The conception of one "person" (corporate or otherwise) with clear focus and great clarity. A 30 meter lens, 1/3 the size of a football field, with better vision than human eyes, connected to computers that can organize the information relayed to them faster than a human brain in a way that sentences penned by the protesters can only hope to manage for a moment or two at best. If the anti-TMT comments on this thread are any indication, even that isn't often the case.
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves